xiv, 315 p. ; 24 cm

"American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much anticipated book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the "pink collar" domain of telephone operators, secretaries, and airline hostesses. From the 1930s to the 1980s, these women pursued answers to problems that are increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address the growing economic inequalities that confront us. The Other Women's Movement traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present."--BOOK JACKET

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: The Missing Wave -- Ch. 1. The Other Labor Movement -- Ch. 2. Social Feminism Remade -- Ch. 3. Women's Job Rights -- Ch. 4. Wage Justice -- Ch. 5. The Politics of the "Double Day" -- Ch. 6. Labor Feminism at High Tide -- Ch. 7. The Torch Passes -- Ch. 8. An Unfinished Agenda -- Epilogue: The Next Wave

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